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Russia, China and Iran spread fake news about attack on Charlie Kirk
The murder of Charlie Kirk is by state media In Russia, China and Iran. According to an NGO, a number of false reports in the countries are circulating.
According to a NGO, state media in Russia, China and Iran spread mass disinformation to the attack on the ultra -right activist Charlie Kirk. State media in the three countries have mentioned Kirk 6200 times a week ago, as announced by the Newsguard organization specializing on false information on the Internet on Wednesday.
Kirk was considered one of the most influential right-wing activists and mouthpiece by US President Donald Trump for the youth. According to the authorities, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot the 31-year-old from one roof. He was arrested, the public prosecutor complained about murder.
Russian media connected between attack on Charlie Kirk and Ukraine War
According to Newsguard, the majority of the disinformation about the assassination were spread in Russian media, which reported and tried about an alleged involvement of Ukraine to connect the attack with Kirk’s rejection of US military aid for Kiev.
Iranian state media expressed unoccupied assumptions about the participation of the Israeli secret service Mossad, as Newsguard continued. As the basis for this false information, reference was made to Kirk’s criticism of US attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran in June.
According to Newsguard, China’s state media spread false information about the alleged assassin Robinson and claimed that the 22-year-old donated money for Trump’s election campaign in 2020.
US government is creating the program to combat disinformation
The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, had already warned last week that the opponents of the United States could exploit the murder of Kirks. “We have bots from Russia, China and the whole world who try to spread disinformation and to stare into violence,” he said.
The US government had abolished a program for monitoring and combating foreign interference and disinformation in April. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified this with the need to preserve the “freedom of expression”. According to reports, the USA recently reported agreements to combat disinformation campaigns with Germany and more than 20 countries worldwide.
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Source: Stern
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